Tag: baltimore orioles
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Monkey Bytes, April 29: Kimbrel suffers a second straight blown save, Plus two career-first saves, Game Recaps, and more
Sunday slates provide ancillary saves courtesy of workload management programs for relievers, along with the usual chaos that accompanies the ever-volatile saves category. Before delving into the game recaps, the CliffsNotes version of the high-leverage events of interest from yesterday’s action. Closer CliffsNotes American League (RP | BAL): Suffering his third blown save, and first…
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Monkey Bytes, April 25: Cash flummoxes fantasy players (again), Neris records his second save, Payamps his fourth, Game Recaps, and more
Leading off with three of the more confusing leverage ladders, Wednesday’s slate featured leverage pathways by the Rays, Cubs, and Brewers resulting in saves. Will these patterns repeat? This remains one of the biggest questions ahead of this weekend’s contests. All of yesterday’s high-leverage events of interest get covered in our daily Monkey Bytes. Tampa…
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Monkey Bytes, April 23: It’s Miller time (again), Bednar secures his third, Kimbrel hangs on for his sixth, Game Recaps, and more
Although Monday only provided 11 contests on the slate, it yielded seven saves and a win for high-leverage relievers. These will be covered in today’s post, in order of occurrence. However, the biggest news of the day happened when Tampa Bay placed Pete Fairbanks on the 15-day injured list with a “nerve issue“. With no…